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Challenges in the real world use of classification accuracy metrics: From recall and precision to the Matthews correlation coefficient

Fig 6

Relationships between apparent J, F1, MCC and prevalence with prevalence assessed using three imperfect reference standards of differing quality that contain errors correlated with those in the classification.

The true relationship, obtained using a gold standard reference, is also shown for comparative purposes with a dashed black line.

Fig 6

doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291908.g006